Improvement in animal-traps



UNITED STATES PATENT QEEICE..

LORING J. BAKER, OF EAST MAGHIAS, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ANIMAL-TRAPS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 51,283, dated December 5, 1865.

T0 all whom t may @www escape of the aiiiin als, at the same time opeiiin g Be it; known that I, LORING J BAKER, 0f the aperture for the opposite end of the plat- East Maohias, iii the county of Washington fern), Whlell makes 1t il Delpellilllyset tmD- and State of Maine, have invented a new Ma- Seeulg the light through the glltmgi they Dess Chin@ for Catching Animals, Called th@ i Per. under the movable gates@ G into the chambers petual Animal-Trap 5 andl do lierebydeclare D D- v that the following' is a full, clear, and exact The bfl-l'bOXeS lllillleil E E at the @Xblelllldescription of the construction and operation @es ef the Platform aFe t0 temD the animals 0f the same,referencebeinghadto the annexed into said trap, and, being at the ends oi' the i drawings, making a part of this specification, platform, insure an operation which secures the in Which- (LUIDlH.

Figure l is a perspective View Fig 2 is L F F are swinging doors that let the animals F perspective view, with a part of the cover and out; end ere hung 011 IHVO'fs G G, fastened by side broken out to show the rocking platform.; the Plus H H t and it shows also both bait-boxes and one of II flle PWUUOUs lbm'e the IUOVeble gates: the movable gates. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal Whlehi together With helUOVLble gates, sepa' section. rate the chambers D D from the platform- The rst gure shows the case and the holes Chamber The gratings K K seCllle the 2111iiu the top and sides, where the animals go in mills 11i Sbld Chambers. onto the rocking platform, (marked Ain Figs. I @1mm- 2 and 3,) the operation of which is as follows: Th@ rocking platform A and its partition B, When the animals goin onto the rocking platwhich, by its operation, opens the aperture alforin, it being hung in the oenter, it tips down, ternately to either side, as described, making as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3. When a perpetual trap.

said rocking platform has tipped, as already LORING J. BAKER.. i,V described, the partition B, which is axed to Witnesses:

the platform, changes over to B (dotted line) A. MCNIOHOL,

and closes the apertures, which prevents the B. ROGERS. 

